The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-09-22
.an ANp.couNTY ITEMS.

Ill sells for cash aud sells low
w. Wv. Eli. lie now living in Mrs. Mead
Asrse. has zone 10 Mon
tUell0. aoo, made from nov
,soat is a beauty or cant.
'OA ~ uor Mr.. Dave Wilson is here on
W., ". zack McClendOn is at home to
..,uperate his health
recuP nr aonr from Powell aud you
,a pIi have to take it back
NOD and Mrs. Murrah spent last Sab
hath at Hanloh"rSt'
VS. ~ ! R. Parish will preach at the
Baptist Sth, church tonight .,..
Miss Berthe Perkins attended the pro-
..1 meeting at CaseyvIlie'
~ Charles Riggan, wife and child are
~ On , visit to Mrs. Kidd,
W. ,,,,o Cbrisnan returned from Liberty
,.j1ay onite unwell, but is now lmpro'-
10 S,.-. will he regular meeting of the
i w.. Alliance OH the first Friday III
october ,
o.rrsxs-A. Riggs & Bro. ,2i7 Delord
-. near Dryades, New Orleans. Send
for price list
r.. cool breeze and welcome showers
. -. mast few days have greatly inl-
moved the weather.
NC Cole, after spending pleas
'.,;. 20 friends here, returned to New
orleans this week
Hon. c. R. Dale was IN town "'S""'
.nd Enlightened this office few moments
] BY bis welcome presence
n;os clean stock at kohlman s
-on are sure to get value reeeived-no
Customer leaves dissatisfied.
our enterprisiug merchant F. II. Hart
AN &c Getting the sand and brick on the
Ground for his mammoth new store
Mr. Henderson Smith and family now
.,o,pv Mrs. Hawthorne's residence.
Tup LEADER welcomes them to town.
Pres, Webb, of Mississippi College,
,o.sed through Brookhaven Sunday on
hi. way to the Bogue Chitto Association.
DO YOU need sewing machines 1t So
bpy n genuine Singer. j. X, Perkins is
agent and will sell you for cash or credit
The Georgia Minstrels will appear at
Ucueks Hall in all their ebon glory to-
morrow night. They are the best on the
road,
Mis-. Addic Smith left this week for the
Industrial Institute and College ut Co
lumbrs and Mr. Lum. Smith for the A. q
NJ. College.
If YOU need any machinery or mill sup
plies machine oils, betting or any thing III
the HARDWARE line, Perkins is the place to
get il cheapest and best.
The wide.awake house of John Nc
Grath have been oVerhauling the interior
Of their store, making repairs and getting
resdy for big tall trade.
The broom dill is progressing ninety
and the fair young soldiers" Will appear
before tie public next Monday night III
all their superb loyeliness.
viii Hoskns, son of Mr.. ". s. Hos
kns, of this place, has been promoted 10
the position of conductor on the V. ~ NJ.
Railroad. He is deserving young man
and will win his way.
The young ladies broom drill, under the
auspices OF the Ladies' Aid Society OF the
Methodist Church, Will take place at
Heuck's Hall uext Monday night. Adj
mission, IS cents; children, Is cents.
The grand match ball play will take
place at Mr.. Dan Buic's on Friday Sept,
Goth, instead of the Goth, as enormously
stated in our last issue. THE LEADER
expects to be properly represented on the
exciting occasion.
We believe that Prohibition and the
Farmers Alliance are destined to be the
twin agencies that are to bring Lincoln
county out of the Slough of Despond and
place her feet upon the solid rock of flu
tnre prosperity. So mote it be.
Rev. J. r. Parish Is the life of every
Association and Convention be attends.
His every appearance on such occasions is
the signal for side-s splitting laugh, and
between every laugh he always gets in
some hard telling ticks for the cause he
advocates.
MIR. VIM. Boles, who is an enterprising
man and a splendid farmer, has been
saving fine lot of lespideza hay with
his mower on the Millsaps place. Ac-
cording to Gen. Lees letter, farmers gen
orally could not do better thing than
follow his example.
Our city authorities ought to do one
OF two things-either abolish the street
lamps altogether or have them properly
Kept and lighted. The former, we think,
would be preferable. AS it is, the SER
vice costs the Taxpayers over $500 per
month, and is next to worthless.
The man any where in reasonable dis
lance of Brookhaven who doesn't come
here to do his trading this fall will miss
1t. Our business man nayer have been